On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 18:59:39 +0100, Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote: > First, I think it would be best to have a syntax to represent symbols. > Adding some special char before the name is probably a good way to > achieve that : $open, $close, ... are $ymbols.
I think your chances of convincing Guido to introduce new syntax is slim to none. (Not quite zero -- he did accept @ for decorators.) I think symbols should simply be an immutable object, one with state and limited or no behaviour, rather than a brand new syntactical element. Being an object, you can reference them in whatever namespace you define them in. Personally, I think rather than adding a new language feature (...slim to none...) there is more hope of getting something like this added to the standard library: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/413486 -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
